Research Catalog

Title

Medical understandings of emotions in antiquity : theory, practice, suffering / edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979-
• Spatharas, Dēmos G.

Description

x, 298 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

Series Statement

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 131. Ancient emotions ; III

Uniform Title

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 131.

Subject

• To 1500
• Emotions > History > To 1500
• Emotions > Health aspects
• Medicine, Ancient
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Medicine > Philosophy
• Emotions
• Medicine

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Call Number

JFE 23-1763

ISBN

• 9783110771893
• 3110771896

LCCN

2022932967

OCLC

1314356733

Title

Medical understandings of emotions in antiquity : theory, practice, suffering / edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 131. Ancient emotions ; III

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 131.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979- editor. Editor

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor. Editor

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783110772012

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1763